Or maybe you don't care for poison. Maybe you'd rather be shot full of holes, or tossed over a high balcony, or ripped apart by dogs. If your tastes are simpler, you may settle for being betrayed, turned over to the cops, sent up for life.

Whatever kind of trouble you want, we have it. There are twelve dames in this book, in twelve separate stories, and they supply a lot more in the way of sex, savagery, and surprises than a man usually bargains for.